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Orphans of Islam : family, abandonment, and secret adoption in Morocco / Jamila Bargach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bargach, Jamila, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Alterations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--Morocco.
- Adoption.
- Illegitimacy--Morocco.
- Illegitimacy.
- Illegitimate children--Morocco.
- Illegitimate children.
- Abandoned children--Morocco.
- Abandoned children.
- Adoption--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and 'excluded body' of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of 'adoption,' which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and cultural mechanisms of one predominantly Islamic country, Jamila Bargach shows how 'the surplus bastard body' is created by mainstream society.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Transcription; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction(s): Object/Subject, Discipline/Argument; Part I Defining Moves: From Text to Script and from Script to Text; 1. Legal Throes: Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children; 2. Counterpoints: The Idiom of Adoption between Theological Interpretation, the Rise ofthe Nation-State and the 'Real'; Part II Rootless Lives and Bloodless Ties: Bastards, Secret Adoptions, and Some Other Cultural Dialectics
- 3. Of Anthropology: Nature, Nurture, and Kinship4. Of Rituals: Names, Affiliation, and Identity; 5. Of Culture: Loci, Lore, and Stereotypes; Part III Nothing above Family: To Reflect on Marginality; 6. News from the Art, Intellectual, and Media Fronts: Reflections on and Representations of Marginality; 7. Social Work at Work: Or What Politics for What Help?; 8. Civil Society and Social Work: Or the Politics of What Help?; Postface; Notes; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-22840-0
- 1-299-79514-5
- 1-4616-4043-1
- OCLC:
- 856627747
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